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Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by heartbeats »

lambdadmitry wrote: post #30
heartbeats wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's your list - you have to use double newlines: - torrents work if they are shared more than they are leeched, so it's just easier to have it run in the background. There's very little reason to not use the existing client/server models like transmission or tTorrent - indexing and search still relies too much on third parties. Integrate magnetico (passive indexing), bep 33 (dht-based scraping) and bep 51 (dht-bas…

If you use private torrents, chances are you want the swarms you participate in to be private, unless you're happy to announce your IP to RIAA. I do agree though that the current model in which cross-seeding between private swarms is an afterthought and a pain is not perfect. Clients should handle that automatically without having to resort to hardlinks and separate folders and heuristics to find matching torrents an…

This is only really a problem in the US, and for people who aren't using a VPN.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by iqkznnft »

I hope this is a good place to ask: what do people in HN use for torrent client?

I recently learned that transmission got hacked (more than once apparently) so I decided to stop using it. The alternatives seem to be deluge or qbittorrent. I picked the latter because it has labels (and supports moving finished downloads to different folders depending on label), which is a feature I'd always wanted in a torrent client. But my point is it seems to me all the torrent clients seems very similar, barring very minor features.

Anyway, what do you people use and why?

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by june11 »

iqkznnft wrote: post #33

I hope this is a good place to ask: what do people in HN use for torrent client? I recently learned that transmission got hacked (more than once apparently) so I decided to stop using it. The alternatives seem to be deluge or qbittorrent. I picked the latter because it has labels (and supports moving finished downloads to different folders depending on label), which is a feature I'd always wanted in a torrent client.…

I personally use qbittorrent, after ubittorrent got ads way back. I view torrent clients like a good saw/hammer, if it works and you know it well, that's all you need. Sometimes you don't need to put much thought into what software you pick.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by ayushnix »

figbert wrote: post #26
crtasm wrote: post #2

Looks interesting, why does it require a special font? Suggest you remove the examples of downloading copyrighted content and the yify website from your readme.

The font isn't strictly required – Mabel functions just fine without it, you will just have one or two characters that don't render properly. I suppose we could make Nerd Fonts opt-in via the config, but I don't think it's that unusual an ask. See: https://starship.rs The images in the README have been updated.

For what it's worth, I mostly avoid using software that mandates or doesn't work as expected without nerd fonts. I find nerd fonts unnecessary but maybe it's just me.

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by quickthrower2 »

iqkznnft wrote: post #33

I hope this is a good place to ask: what do people in HN use for torrent client? I recently learned that transmission got hacked (more than once apparently) so I decided to stop using it. The alternatives seem to be deluge or qbittorrent. I picked the latter because it has labels (and supports moving finished downloads to different folders depending on label), which is a feature I'd always wanted in a torrent client.…

Deluge for years. Since uTorrent was full of ads and crap (not sure if it still is)

Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal

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Post by acherion »

crtasm wrote: post #13
acherion wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like there's a few glyphs being used in this application (things like folder icons, etc) that normal fonts aren't going to provide.

Ah - I'm not asking what it's for, I'm asking why isn't it optional. First time I've seen TUI software require installing a font.

Yes that's a fair call. I don't really have an opinion in the matter as I am not interested in using this tool, but your question is a fair one.
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